Sugar-dispensing cabinet.



F. MANARESI.

SUGAR DISPENSING CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED MAR; 4, I9I5.

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SUGAR DISPENSING CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED MAR-4.1915.

Patented Nov. 28, 1916.

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FRANCESCO MANARESI, OF FLORENCE, ITALY.

SUGAR-DISPENSING CABINET.

Application filed March 4, 1915.

To all whom it magjconcern Be it known that I, FRANCESCO MANAnEsI, a subject of the King of Italy, resident of No. 6 Via Arte della Lana, Florence, in the Kingdom of Italy, have invented new and useful Improvements in Sugar-Dispensing Cabinets, of which the following is a specifL cation.

This invention relates to sugar dispensing cabinets and more particularly to apparatus of the kind in which lumps of sugar need not be stacked in rows or columns but may be introduced pell-mell and in great numbers,-suitable provision being made in order that the lumps will be dispensed one by one.

The object of this invention is to provide a sugar dispensing cabinet that will be easier to operate than the apparatus known heretofore; that will not be liable to jam,

and will be suitable for use in connection with lumps of sugar of very difierent sizes.

Other objects are to increase the capacity of such dispensing apparatus and to provide means whereby the extra weight of the increased charge of sugar will not interfere with the smooth operation of the dispensing member.

Various embodiments of the invention are shownby way of example in the annexed drawing in Which Figure 1 is an outer view, Fig. 2 a vertical section, Fig. 3 a plan of one of such constructional forms. A modified form is represented in Figs. 4 and 5, of which Fig.4 is a vertical section of the upper part of the apparatus and Fig. 5 a plan of the funnel; Fig. 6 shows another modification of the distributor, partly in elevation and partly in a vertical section of the upper part; Fig.

.7 is a perspective view of the aforesaid plan Fig. 5 and Figs. 8 and 9 are respectively sections according to w m and 3 1 (Fig. 5).

The apparatus shown in Figs. 1-3 consists of a pedestal as base 1, to which is attached the plate or tray 2 upon which the lumps of sugar fall, the movement imparting gear being placed in the inner part. The latter consists of a couple of conical wheels 3, 4 meshing with each other; the wheel 4 fixed to a toothed disk 5 actuated by a pawl 6 pressed by a spring 7 the pawl is actuated in turn by a lever 8, whose end projects from the pedestal in order to be worked by the finger pressure of the customer. The columns 9, rising from the pedestal, sustain a vessel in the shape of a funnel 10 into Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 28, 1916.

Serial No. 12,091.

which the sugar lumps are thrown pell-mell; to a cylindrical edge 11 of the said funnel a lid 12 is fixed. Inside a cylindrical box 13, which forms the bottom of the funnel 10 and is bored in the center to leave a passage for the shaft 24 upon which the conical wheel 4 is mounted in the interior part, is placed, and turns with the shaft 24, a member con sisting of two cones 15 and 16. The cone 15 turns upward, and cone 16 is closely applied to the funneled surface of vessel 10, and is provided with a cylindrical edge 18 on the upper part and by a cylindrical edge 14 on the lower part, the cylindrical edge 18 being immediately below a circular rib 17 which forms the circle of base of the upper cone 15. The sugar lumps piled in the space between the upper part of the funnel 10 andthe central conical part in view of the edge 18 cannot pass into the funnel 16 except through three, four or more openings 19 made inthe said edge. The cylindrical crown 14 is prolonged by an edge 20 somewhat projecting above the lower end of the conical inner surface of the member 16, so as to retain the lumps of sugar passed through the openings 19 and prevents their immediate fall into the cylindrical crown 14. In one part of the conical surface 16 is formed an opening lumps into a collecting chute 23,. which slopes from the bottom of the box to above the plate 2.

According to the modification shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the funnel 10 in which are placed pell-mell the sugar lumps is secured to a support 25 which, in its turn, is sustained by the columns 9. Through the bot- -tom of the support 25 and through the bottom 35 of the lower cylindrical part of the funnel 10, the shaft 24 passes loosely, which can be made to revolve at intervals by a convenient mechanism placed at the foot of the apparatus, as, for example, the one described with reference to Figs. 1 to 3.

The Shaft .24. is screw threaded at its and :26 and secured to central body 15 by means of the nuts 2? and 23, the first of which is fixed to the bottom 29, the second to the top 42 of the central body itself. The central body 15 is formed of an upper part in the form of a truncated cone or calotte and of a lower similarly shaped part 30, the two parts being connected along their larger bases and is provided with a collar 32 which is revolving into the lower cylindrical part of the funnel 10. The conical wall 30 is fitted with some parallelepipedal projections 35 between each pair of which are as many empty spaces 31, also parallelepipedal, having the approximate depth of two lumps of sugar placed side by side. These empty spaces are limited along the sides by the lateral walls 34 of the projections 35, on the bottom by the collar 32 and on the top by the conical wall 30. They open on the front toward the cavity of the funnel 10 and downward toward the conical wall of the funnel itself. In the zone in which the funnel 10 passes from the conical form into the cylindrical form of the bottom there is a circular rib 36 which slightly projects toward the inner part of the conical wall 10 in its lower and narrower zone. 7

In one point of the funnel 10 an opening 37 is made to which is connected the distributing chute 23 going through the support The upper side of the opening 37 is limited by a rib 41 (see Figs. 8 and 9) projecting from the surface of the funnel 10 and somewhat extending beyond the side itself of the opening 37 in two pieces of rib of a height decreasing until zero, in a manner as to form a gradual barrier between the opening and the adjacent parts on one side and the zone of the funnel placed above the said parts on the other side; this upper zone may be made slightly concave at 38 in order to increase the effect of the rib 41.

The apparatus works as follows: The lumps of sugar placed pell-mell into the funnel 10 occupy, in a radial position, two by two in a row (39, 40 Fig. 4) the empty spaces 31, and by the turning ofthe central body, they are caused to revolve in groups of two, owing to the walls 34 which push them forward, the same leaning against the conical wall of the funnel 10 and being kept with a certain play inside the empty spaces 31 by the rib 36 which limits their descent along the conical wall of the funnel. Whenever a space 31 reaches the top part of the opening 37 the lump of sugar 39 falls through the-latter, while the lump 40 is prevented from doing so by the rib 41, so that the fall of only one lump of sugar takes place when one space 31 reaches the opening 37: with the proceeding of the rotation of the central body, in consequence of the lowering of the rib 41, the lumps of sugar 40 can descend and assume the position occupied by the lump 39 and a new lump of sugar takes the place of lump 40; th1s only occurs, when the space 31 has overreached V the opening 37. Instead of making the cen- The edge 11 is provided in this case with a hooded cap 44 which forms the shutting of the apparatus and serves to sustain, with its border 45 the vase 46 inside which is placed the whole of the sugar lumps, and a funnel 47 which compels them to fall upon the central part of the surface 43, so that neither the border of the latter nor the funnel 10 has to carry the weight of the whole of the lumps. The part 47 instead of having the shape of a funnel can be cylindrical: it is essential that the vertical distance between the lower border of it and the surface 43 should but little exceed (not more than some millimeters) the dimension of the larger side of the lump. The lumps, obeying the centrifugal force due to the rotation of the surface 43 and eventually to their weight, are displacedtoward the bor der of the surface 43 and fall singly into the space between the funnel 10 and the cone 30: hence they are successively carried to the discharge orifice 37 in the manner described. The rotation of the movable part can be obtained in any obvious manner, either from the top or from the'bottom or from the side.

Having now described my invention and how the same is to be carried out, what I claim as my invention, is:

1. Sugar-dispensing cabinet comprising in combination a container having a funnelshaped bottom, a dispensing member fitting in and mounted to rotate within the bottom part of said container, means on the bottom of the container whereby the lumps of sugar engaged by the dispensing member will be discharged one at a time, and means on said dlspensing member extending over the said discharging means and cooperating with the bottom part of said container, said dispensing member having peripheral apertures and being arranged to form, in conjuncton with the bottom of the container, an annular race from which the lowermost lumps of sugar are discharged through the apertures of the dispensing member, and means on the hottom of the container whereby the lumps of sugar engaged by the dispensing member will be discharged one at a time.

Sugar dispensing cabinet comprising in combination a container having a funnelshaped bottom, discharging means in the bottom of the container, a hollow dispensing member fitting in and mounted to rotate within the bottom part of said container, said dispensing member having a smooth top surface extending over the said discharging means and peripheral apertures through which the lumps of sugar are admitted to the discharging means, means on the path of the lumps of sugar being discharged whereby they will be dispensed one at a time.

4. Sugar dispensing cabinet comprising in combination a container having an upper part or chamber and an enlarged lower part or chamber having a funnel-shaped bottom, a hollow dispensing member fitting in and mounted to rotate within the lower chamber and arranged so as to leave an annular space between the said dispensing member and the walls of the container, means on the bottom of the container whereby the lumps of sugar engaged by the dispensing member will be discharged one at a time, the top surface of the dispensing member extending over the said discharging means and cooperating with the walls of the container to support the lumps of sugar contained in the lower chamber, and guiding means whereby the lumps of sugar in the upper chamber are caused to bear on the top surface of the dispensing member.

5. Sugar dispensing cabinet comprising in combination a container having a cylindrical upper chamber and an enlarged lower chamber with a funnel-shaped bottom, a hollow dispensing member fitting in and mounted to rotate within the lower chamber and arranged so as to leave an annular space between the said dispensing member and the walls of the container, means onthe bottom of the container whereby the lumps of sugar will be discharged one at a time, the dispensing member having peripheral apertures and a smooth and substantially fiat top surface extending over the said discharging means, a substantially cylindrical partition extending beyond the wall of the upper chamber and projecting into the lower chamber to a distance from the top surface of the dispensing member just suflicient to allow for the passage of a lump of sugar.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiiX my signature in the presence of two witnesses. FRANCESCO MANARESI. lVitnesses:

BLARTO SALvo'rI, LYLE RoBB.

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